Chatter Over Fences

Table View, South Africa (day 9)

I am at Home of Hope and I am sitting silently. I am quiet because I do not want to interrupt the conversation between the Xhosa children housed at Home of Hope and the Afrikaner children sitting  in a tree on the other side of the fence. The conversation in uncensored and adorable; like most chatter between children. But what I am thinking about is how different the interaction would be 30 years ago during the Apartheid Government, or if this conversation would have occurred at all?

I think children demonstrate the state of a society and this ordinary conversation between children over the fence suggests that South Africa has come a long way.